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African Cities Through Local Eyes

Part of the The Urban Book Series Book Series

Editors: Faldi, Giuseppe; Fisher, Axel; Moretto, Luisa

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-84906-1

ISBN: 978-3-030-84905-4

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Oct 17, 2021

1 - 10 of 15 Chapters

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Five Points for Conceptualising Place-Based Approaches to African Urban Planning: An Introduction

Faldi, Giuseppe; Fisher, Axel; Moretto, Luisa

Pages: 1 –27

[In the face of the ever-evolving and emerging urban, environmental and socioeconomic transformations of Africa cities, a growing body of literature advocates for new attitudes towards urban planning theory and practices. Within this frame, place-based approaches are a recurring trope vested with...
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Re-inscribing the Communal: Towards Decolonial Urban Futures

Molebatsi, Chadzimula O.

Pages: 29 –43

[Using the decolonial theoretical framework, this chapter reinterprets spatial planning practices in Botswana’s urban villages and makes a case for the reappropriation of indigenous spatial planning models silenced by the hegemonic Modernist planning models. The oxymoron urban villages are used...
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Urbanisation Without Urbanity, Modernity Without Modernisation. Recording Biographical Trajectories of Houses in the Dendi Rural Region (North Benin)

Pinet, Jean-François

Pages: 45 –69

[This paper reconsiders some categories still frequently used in the description of rural built environments in sub-Saharan Africa that have, however, been questioned in other contexts. African rural areas are associated with concepts such as the vernacular, ethnicity and tradition, and are often...
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Designing the Diaspora: Expressing African Heritage in Historic Charleston

Walker, Nathaniel Robert

Pages: 71 –89

[Charleston, South Carolina was one of the first large European colonies in North America and is one of the most important sites of the African Diaspora. The city’s urban fabric was built with the money made by African skills and labour, as thousands of people were enslaved to grow the rice,...
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Nature-Based Solutions for Public Green Spaces in Sub-Saharan Africa—Integrating Place-Making and Green Infrastructure

Cilliers, Juanee; Cilliers, Sarel; Lategan, Louis

Pages: 91 –110

[Transforming unsuccessful public spaces into successful ones is challenging, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa where public open spaces often compete with other pressing needs such as basic services and housing. Due to budget constraints and restricted capacity, public open spaces are often...
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Slums as Opportunities? Spatial Organisation, Microeconomy and Self-made Infrastructures in Freetown Informal Settlements

Monica, Federico

Pages: 111 –127

[This chapter analyses the role of informality in contemporary African cities not by focusing on emergencies or on what is missing, but by considering the positive aspects that have developed within the slums and the benefits that informal neighbourhoods can bring to the whole urban system....
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Divergent Practice: Architecture as a Multidimensional Impact Tool in Rural Lesotho

Gantner, Garret; La Mantia, Costanza

Pages: 129 –149

[This chapter outlines a framework for an interconnected, multi-tiered strategy linking architecture and development planning in the rural Lesotho town of Semonkong, using a hospital project as a case study. The concept of inverse planning is introduced, focused on small-scale strategies that...
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Teaching Design in a Post-rainbow Nation: A South African Reflection on the Limits and Opportunities of Design Praxis

Bennett, Jhono

Pages: 151 –172

[There has been an intense discourse on the relationship between inter-stakeholder university engagements, or service learning, and the broader society that South African universities claim to serve over the past decade in both local and international academia. The inherent problem within these...
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Urban Resilience and the Question of Food in Ethiopian Urbanisation: The Case of a Small Town in Ethiopia—Amdework

Tola, Teshome Tefera; Khan, Ahmed Z.; Wegayehu, Fisseha

Pages: 173 –190

[Small towns in sub-Saharan African countries are usually faced with immense challenges, which are called stresses and/or shocks in the urban resilience literature. Diagnosing stresses or slow burns and developing local resilience against them is a crucial task that urban planners and...
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Transnational Urban Spaces. Production Locations of the Global Clothing Industry in Ethiopia

Beyer, Elke; Hagemann, Anke

Pages: 191 –214

[Currently, Ethiopia’s federal government aims to kick-start industrialization through an integration with global production networks. Specifically, the global clothing industry is encouraged to locate their manufacturing in the country. Large-scale new industry parks and textile factories have...

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